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Lately, manufacturers are putting the batteries into account for software updates. Although before the common thing was that their terminals were born and died with the version of Android with which they had seen the light, now users want updates. Despite always going one step behind the terminals manufactured by Google, they already have beta of Android Q, the betas have become fashionable before offering the update globally. In this case, it is Honor who has launched its Android 9 Pie beta for the Honor 9 Lite. We tell you the news that this beta brings and how to sign up for it.
Android 9 Pie for Honor 9 Lite
Android 9 Pie would arrive alongside EMUI 9. The update of the customization layer of the Huawei and Honor terminals would be responsible for bringing all the changes. These changes are intended for software, the most drastic change is the new version of Android and everything that goes with it. We talk about all the performance improvements, latest security patch, etc. Possibly the aesthetic changes are minimal if we consider that EMUI makes up a lot of what Android Stock is.
Among the novelties that would arrive for the Honor 9 Lite with EMUI 9 would be an improved redesign of the terminal menus, both the application curtain and the settings would be designed to offer a more pleasant experience to the user. In addition, it would integrate new gestures for smartphone navigation along with new animations for locking and unlocking the terminal. The changes are not many, but they are certainly welcome since an update to change the version of Android is a great step and says a lot about the company.
How to sign up for the Android 9 Pie beta on the Honor 9 Lite
If after reading the previous lines you want to try or see with your own eyes the operation of Android 9 Pie on the Honor 9 Lite, we will show you how to sign up for the beta to receive EMUI 9. First of all, this beta is available for the Honor 8 Pro and Honor 7X, Honor 9 Lite is the last to arrive in this program. The only thing you will need is one of these terminals. After choosing the terminal with which you want to enroll in the beta, you have to access the Huawei website.
On the Huawei website we go to the support menu and look for “Friendly User Test”. Once we find it we have to download it. To make things easier for you, we leave you here a direct link to this page. You have to click on the download button, if you are browsing from your computer you will download an apk file that you will have to transfer to your device by the method you prefer. If you browse from your mobile, it will be downloaded and a window will open in which it will ask you if you want to install this application.
Once the application is installed, you must access it, for this we will use our HiCloud ID user. This account is created in the Huawei and Honor terminals, if by any chance you are not registered you will have to go to the terminal menu and look for this section to create one of these accounts. We access with our newly created account or not, we move to the "Personal" window and below this window we will see a button that says "Join Project", when we click, "Avaliable projects" will appear to which we click. After having done this correctly, we will have reached a page where “EMUI 9 Beta” is shown, we will apply our registration and we only have to wait.
After applying to the beta we will receive a notification to download the new version of the operating system. This update will change the software of our device and very possibly erase our personal data, so it is advisable to make a backup of all the information that we have in our terminal if we do not want to lose photos, videos, etc.